The largest food craze trending every major city has become gourmet food trucks & carts. This unique style of street food has been exploding over the past year. We are bringing the best food trucks and carts in Columbus to one location and combining it with live entertainment and beers to create Columbus’s first Food Truck & Cart Festival. This festival is meant to showcase the delicious cuisine that is rolling out on our Columbus streets, taking place Friday August 26, 2011 at the brand new Columbus Commons.

FREE Admission, over 20 of central Ohio’s best food trucks and carts, portion of the proceeds benefit the Mid Ohio Food bank, Live Music, On-site beer sales, Games for kids and Families, Local vendor booths, raffle prizes including two tickets provided by Dreamseats to the upcoming Foo Fighters concert.

Columbus food truck fest committee is trying to promote the Mid Ohio food bank and raising canned goods awareness. We will be filling the CD101 mobile truck with donated canned goods. All canned goods will be donated to the mid Ohio food bank.

Fun is the simplest description. The atmosphere will be casual and laid back with great music, affordable food and drinks.

Food vendors already committed, more to be announced soon!

Families Mobile Kitchen

Leslie Crepes

3 Babes and a Baker

Munch Box

Earth Crust

Yellow Boy Polish Boys

Short North Bagel Deli

Cheesy Truck

Veggilicious

Spinellis Deli

Paddy Wagon

Rad Dog

Patty Cake

Jeni’s Ice Cream

Mojo TaGO

Dave’s Dogs & More

Mikey’s Late Nite Slice

The Pickled Swine

Lotsa Lobsta

Juniors Tacos

Make Believe Monsters presents:

Night of the Living Record (Volume 1), a local music compilation CD release party

A bit disappointing to be taco-less. It’d be like going to a cart vendor festival in chicago and no one selling hot dogs.

It probably has little to do with language issues.

The difficulty with getting the taco trucks out is that they aren’t easily able to be as mobile as the majority of the rest of the mobile vendors. Taco trucks pay rent for space on private lots and have an established customer base that expects them to be at their usual location. That makes it tougher to just pack up and abandon their loyal patrons for an unknown.

More than a few of them have been scammed by event organizers in the past (paying serious money for the right to sell at a ‘big’ event that ends up pulling under 100 people in total), so they’re often a bit hesitant.

Needless to say, I have every confidence that this event will be entirely above board, and I’m looking forward to it. It may feel a bit incomplete if there’s no Mexican fare, but I’m sure it’ll still be great.